The catalogue of the exhibition Marcel Duchamp: a work that is not a work ‘of art’ will be available to be read or bought at the Library in Fundación Proa. There will be a paperback and a deluxe edition. 

The catalogue of the exhibition Marcel Duchamp: a work that is not a work ‘of art’ features Marcel Duchamp’s life (1887-1968) and oeuvre through photographs, letters, writings, and an important selection of texts by well-known researchers. 

The essays contribute to the debate and reflection, as well as round off the importance that the ‘Duchamp effect’ has had on the art world and culture in our time. There are texts published in Spanish for the first time, such as El parpadeo del ojo (The blink of an eye) by Rosalind Krauss, and El tiempo del readymade (The time of the readymade), by Thierry de Duve. A comprehensive presentation of the artist’s life and works is included, together with unpublished texts by Gonzalo Aguilar- on Duchamp in Buenos Aires- and by Elena Filipovic, the exhibition’s curator, which reveal the curatorial aspects of the artist. 

Duchamp himself is present throughout the catalogue, expressing his own views on his revolutionary oeuvre. The letters written during his stay in Buenos Aires have also been reproduced.  

The edition features an extensive body of images made up of works, photographs and documents which, like a parallel literature, abandon their illustrative function to give way to a discourse of its own. The trilingual edition includes a CD with all the texts in English and Portuguese.  

Thanks to the sponsorship of the French Embassy in Argentina, the texts of the catalogue are also edited in a paperback version and small format, with reference images in black and white, at an affordable price. This book belongs to the educational Collection of Writings on Contemporary Art that Fundación Proa has been publishing so as to spread contemporary ideas. The French Embassy will distribute 500 books in public and art libraries all over the country. 


Highlights

Marcel Duchamp. Vida y obra (Life and Oeuvre)  

Hugo Petruschansky, in collaboration with Cecilia Iida y Clelia 
Taricco 

Introducción (¿Qué es una obra de arte?)  
(Introduction (What is a work of art?) 
Un museo que no es tal 
(A museum that is not such) 
Elena Filipovic 

Viaje a la ciudad de la cuarta dimension 
(Trip to the city of the fourth dimension) 
Gonzalo Aguilar 

Cartas de Marcel Duchamp en Buenos Aires 1918-1919 
(Marcel Duchamp’s Letters in Buenos Aires 1918-1919) Investigation: Cintia Mezza 

* water writes always in * plural 
Octavio Paz 

El tiempo del readymade (The time of the readymade) 
Thierry de Duve

MARCEL DUCHAMP
CATÁLOGO
360 páginas / 21 cm x 27 cm / 179 reproducciones color
Trilingüe, con traducciones al inglés y portugués en CD

EDICIÓN RÚSTICA
212 págs. / 15,5 cm x 22,5 cm  / Imágenes en blanco y negro
Auspiciado por la Embajada de Francia en Argentina.

Para comprar el catálogo: 
libreria@proa.org 
(0054-11) 4104-1005


ISBN 978-987-21336-7-2
360 PAGINAS
 

Disponible sólo en LIBRERIA PROA  y Tienda Online